Red meat has long occupied a near-mythic place in the story of human evolution. It is often cast as the food that helped make us human, feeding bigger brains, stronger bodies, and more complex ...

A tiny fossil, Saccorhytus coronarius, once thought to be a human ancestor from China's Cambrian era, has been reclassified.

Ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 genomes suggests human evolution accelerated after farming, cities, and the Bronze Age transformed Europe.

A new study suggests the answer may trace back to two major shifts in human evolution: walking upright and growing bigger ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

Sadhguru talks about being able to walk up Chamundi Hill in Karnataka, pause at a particular cluster of rocks, and know, with complete certainty, exactly which one a snake was hiding beneath at that ...

Ukraine to West Asia, discover how global wars are reshaping India’s strategy as the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff ...

Many scientists point to cultural evolution, the process by which knowledge, customs and technology spread over time. But ...

The discovery of fire was a major milestone in human evolution, giving our ancestors a way to stay warm, ward off predators, ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Modern humans descended from ...